http://www.pokerpromoblog.com Poker Promotions, News and Poker Videos. Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:48:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When playing tournaments, you can't rely on waiting for the best hands and doubling up. You can pick up uncontested pots through a series of small bets. In this week's video tip, Team Full Tilt's Erick Lindgren explains how to win uncontested pots to build up your chip stack. Erick Lindgren ... http://www.pokerpromoblog.com/poker-pro-tips-identifying-uncontested-pots/ Ernest Wiggins is from Washington DC, and is appearing on The Big Game as one of the Loose Cannon online qualifiers. He became interested in poker after dating a player, and now competes on a regular basis. So far his experience of live poker has been confined to local cash ... http://www.pokerpromoblog.com/phil-hellmuth-vs-loose-cannon-ernest-wiggins-in-a-hilarious-hand/ Full Tilt Poker's Big Little Tournament series returns this July, with eight $100,000 guaranteed tournaments featuring buy-ins of $2 + $0.20. With a guaranteed first-place prize of $9,000, the Big Little Tournament is the best chance for players to turn a small buy-in into a huge score. Play for a piece of ... http://www.pokerpromoblog.com/play-for-a-piece-of-100k-for-just-2-020-every-other-sunday-beginning-this-july/ Author: Roy 'the Oracle' Winston Unless you have a monster draw or are slow playing a big hand, calling is often the wrong play at the table. In fact, it often times takes a stronger hand to make a call than it does to make a raise. "You raised with that?" is ... http://www.pokerpromoblog.com/id-rather-be-a-raiser-than-a-caller/ Author: Howard Lederer Full Tilt Poker recently released a revolutionary new form of online poker: Rush Poker. If you’re not familiar with the game, I encourage you to give it a try. Instead of the players sitting in a 6 or 9-handed game, they are seated in a game that has ... http://www.pokerpromoblog.com/the-basics-of-rush-poker-pro-tips/ All Poker Stars players in the USA and Canada can play in the free-to-enter Big Game qualifiers running 4 times a day, from March 26-June 25. The top 300 players from each will go through to Round 2. Finish in the top 1,000 there and next stop will be the finals. If you ... http://www.pokerpromoblog.com/play-high-stakes-poker-on-national-tv-usa-and-canada/ Freeroll Tournaments cost zero to play but offer a chance to win real money while gaining some real tournament experience. You can discover what it’s like to play when there’s real money at stake, without the danger of losing any of your hard earned money. If you win, you can ... http://www.pokerpromoblog.com/12-daily-freerolls-your-chance-to-compete-for-big-money/ When you get down to the tournament bubble, it’s often going to change your play. Perhaps you’ll play more aggressively to try and take advantage of some of the tighter players aiming to sneak into the money, or perhaps even play tighter yourself to make the money. Watch the above ... http://www.pokerpromoblog.com/medium-stack-bubble-play-allen-cunningham-pro-tips/ This May 19, 2010, it announced it had completed the challenge with nearly two months in advance and made the details of his earnings. The sum of $ 54,000 has been pocketed directly on tables and a nice $46,000 were added through the FPPS: loyalty points PokerStars. "The secret to being ... http://www.pokerpromoblog.com/boku87-completes-5-to-100k-challenge-on-pokerstars/ PokerStars is celebrating the stars of summer by giving all players in the US & Canada the chance to win a Harley Davidson Sportster and Mustang Convertible. All players who make their first real money deposit of $25 or more, or reload their existing account for the same amount, from ... http://www.pokerpromoblog.com/win-a-harley-davidson-and-a-mustang/ Author: Stephan Kalhamer If a poker player wants an edge, he must move with the times. Today, a style which was successful only a year ago can already be outdated; tomorrow, he could be the sucker. However, in the poker world (as in the fashion world), there are timeless classics: the little ... http://www.pokerpromoblog.com/tight-aggressive-is-always-chic-pro-tips/ Author: Brandon Adams The ability to bluff big pots effectively is one of the key skills that separate good players from great players. It is no accident that the games played at the highest stakes feature some of the most daring bluffs: big bluffs are a central part of the game. Most ... http://www.pokerpromoblog.com/bluffing-in-big-pots-brandon-adams-pro-tips/ His goal is to turn $5 into a staggering $100,000 in just 12 months. by Boku87 on March 31, 2010 5:29 AM Some time has elapsed since the previous update. Now I have reached 200,000 VPP and received the first milestone bonus to the order of $3,400. Everything also went pretty ... http://www.pokerpromoblog.com/boku87-challenge-update-march-2010/ The Big Game is a brand new, high stakes poker show on national TV, and you can be part of it for free by playing in the Big Game qualifier tournaments and winning a seat in the cash game.  All you must do is play in any of the Round 1 tournaments ... http://www.pokerpromoblog.com/play-high-stakes-poker-on-tv/ Theres some really great poker between Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan. http://www.pokerpromoblog.com/tom-dwan-and-ivey-are-playing-a-really-epic-hand-which-will-be-remembered-long-time-2010/